Well, that was fun (not)

[Kaeos]

I guess we all get to suffer the rath of nature at some point then eh?

Major Flooding in the Northeast (http://rnews.com/Story_2004.cfm?ID=39493&rnews_story_type=18)

I was down in Ablany when the worst of the rain hit - about 3 hours from home. I headed west about 2:30 pm on Wednesday, got about 10 miles before they were pulling everyone off the interstate becuase several places had washed out or were flooded.

Most of the open areas in central NY between Syracuse and Albany are doninated by portions of the Adirondack mountains. I got see a lot of those trying to get home. They were directing what I found later was a 2 mile long stretch of vehicles up and down through several local routes through towns I've never heard of in my life. I've never seen houses under water until I reached the base of the cliffs and saw little communities along interstate 90 compeltely flooded out.

I was able to get back on the interstate 80 miles down the road and hit another severe ppcket of rain passing through Syracuse. Most of us had to pull over because of hydroplaning and zero visibility.

After leaving Albany at 2:30 I pulled into my driveway a few minutes after 10pm. But I count myself lucky after what people in this country have suffered. No one in my part of NY died. Thankfully.

All I can think now is - brace yourself folks. I have a feeling the rest of this decade is going to be wrought with sever weather in the places you least expect it.

:dunno:

[fastcar]

There's been some bad flooding down our way. some 200,000 residents of Wilkes Barre have been evacuated. Although folks in Johnstown consider you all "Pansies!"

[kah]

You know, all over the country, you all seem to be getting the worst severe weather in decades. In Wisconsin, we've been having the best! I remember sneaking out of school to have a cigarette in February, and the temperature, not the windchill, was -20. This past winter, we had a 40 or 50 day run where it never got below 40 and about a 75 day run above 30. That's insane! My friends who snowplow in the winter said they barely used any salt this year, because it never really got cold enough to need it.

Blame global warming. I, for one, am enjoying the weather. No hurricanes, no earthquakes, no mudslides, no wildfires, no flooding, no drought, and maybe a handful of tornadoes (although those have gotten worse in the past few years). Hey- I'll take my 8 month long winter over all that other stuff. :)

Btw- our mosquitoes usually get killed off in the first week of nice weather when it all of a sudden drops below 30 in May/June. We don't see them again until August. (Well, not this year, but like I said, global warming and all that..)

Wish you were here... :wink:

[sickness]

Heh. I was there. Remember? You can have your 30-degrees-in-May weather! :p :)

[Immortal1982]

As i posted in another recent thread, still on the front page, I manged to get off lucky, not as much damage as wilkes barre (about a half-hour south of us)and the surrounding areas, but not a fun experience overall. The Susquehanna and its feeders took the brunt of the damage.

With the Wilkes-Barre Situation, they evacuted the range of damage caused by Hurricane Agnes in 1972, which is almost 1/4 of a million people.

Hey Fastcar, what part of PA are you in, Johnstown?

[kah]

Heh. I was there. Remember? You can have your 30-degrees-in-May weather! :p :)

Hey- it was not 30. That was a balmy 60. :wink:

[sickness]

Oh, that's right. I forgot. It was 30 with the windchill factor. :lol:

[kah]

Okay, maybe it was crappy a lot of the days you were here, but the day we hung out it was nice. You're just lucky it didn't snow. We have some crazy weather here. Check out this site (http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/wiwx.php).

Here's a few of my favorites..

Hail storm - March 29,1998 - Central and east central Wisconsin. Two prolific thunderstorms produced baseball and grapefruit-sized hail over a 14 county area. 4 inch diameter hail was reported in St. John in Calumet county, with numerous 1 to 3 inch hail reports.

Month with the most recorded tornadoes in the state - 28 tornadoes in June, 1993

Armistice Day blizzard - November 11-12, 1940. Western Wisconsin. Heavy snow with winds of 50 to 80 mph. 10 to 20 foot drifts. Temperatures fell from the 60s on the morning of the 11th, to the single digits by the morning of the 12th. 13 deaths in Wisconsin, mainly duck hunters along the Mississippi River.

May 10th, 1990: 6 to 8 inches of snow fell.

Record Cold - January 31- February 4, 1996. High temperatures ranged from the teens to twenties below zero; lows dropped to the 30s to 50s below zero. State's record coldest temperature -55 F set in Courderay on February 2nd and 4th. -18.3 degree state average temperature is the second coldest 4-day stretch in history. (Coldest was -18.6 avg from February 8-11, 1899). Many all time, monthly, and daily low temperature records set across the state.

Record seasonal snowfall for the state - Hurley, Wi. 277.7 inches in the winter of 1996-97. Eight consecutive months where snow was measured somewhere in the state - October 1996 to May 1997. Six to eight inches of snow fell in northwest Wisconsin on May 11-12, 1997. (great skiing that year)

July 12-15, 1995. 141 deaths in Wisconsin. Greatest single event of weather-related deaths in Wisconsin history. High temperatures of 100 to 108 degrees. Heat index values of 120 to 130. Part of larger heat wave that affected the central U.S. Tied with the summer of 1988 for the warmest average temperature for a summer. All time record highs were set in:
La Crosse - 108 degrees - July 13, 1995
Sheboygan - 108 degrees - July 14, 1995

And because the site doesn't have some recent events, here's a goodie from 2000-

Milwaukee set a new snowfall record of 49.5" in December. This broke the previous record of 27.9" by almost 22"! Snowfall in Milwaukee was occasionally enhanced by northeasterly flow over Lake Michigan. The 13.6" on the 11th was the greatest December single-day snowfall.

[sickness]

Okay. I'll stop complaining about the crappy (but non-harmful) weather now after seeing 4-inch hail in that list. :D

[kah]

Like I said- nice weather when you were here. :wink:

[sickness]

I'll take 15 seconds of 7.0-magnitude earthquake any day of the week over 4-inch hail.

[kah]

I'll take 15 seconds of 7.0-magnitude earthquake any day of the week over 4-inch hail.

lol. 4" hail can do some wicked damage. 1" hail breaks car windshields. I don't know about earthquakes, though. I think I'll let you keep those.

[fastcar]

Hey Fastcar, what part of PA are you in, Johnstown?


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